Miner Open Chests

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[b][u]This game was reviewed using Version 1.0.1. Your experience on other versions may vary.[/u][/b] [h3][b][u]Short Answer:[/u][/b][/h3] A retro-inspired block-breaking puzzle game where you collect treasure chests in a series of labyrinthine caves. The mechanics are easy to learn and also pretty easy to master, so long as you plan your moves carefully to avoid an accidental cave-in. While I did have fun with it overall, the excessive amount of backtracking demanded in the game's larger levels (which only get larger over time) did start to wear on my patience after a while. It has a free demo so you can see if this game is up your alley, and I'd strongly encourage giving that a try first. [h3][b][u]Long Answer:[/u][/b][/h3] [i]Miner Open Chests[/i] is a puzzle game about...well, a miner opening chests—no story beats to speak of, this one's all about gameplay. Specifically, the goal of each level is to find and open every treasure chest in an underground labyrinth filled with blocks of various materials like dirt, stone, ice, and so on. You start each level with a shovel that can only break dirt blocks, but dotted around the map are an assortment of other single-purpose tools that can either break a different type of block (e.g. an axe to break wooden crates, a pickaxe to break stone) or improve your movement capabilities (e.g. shoes that can increase jump height or distance, a parachute that negates fall damage). Along the way, you'll also find a bunch of coins and the occasional star that can be collected to boost your high score and eventually earn certain achievements; though these are entirely optional as the chests are the only mandatory goal. The concept is simple, but the devil is in the details, as the saying goes. Certain blocks are affected by gravity while others aren't, and certain tools have usage restrictions that others don't. For example, the shovel, pickaxe, and drill can be used on blocks directly above, below, and next to you; but the axe, ice pick, and crowbar can only be used on blocks next to you. These two points in conjunction mean that it's possible (and often easy) to accidentally close off your path forward and softlock yourself if you break the wrong block, so you need to carefully plan out your route whenever you come across a new wall of blocks. If you're having trouble keeping track of all the little quirks that tools and blocks can have, there's a guidebook in the pause menu that explains every mechanic in detail, including some that you might struggle to figure out on your own like the one and only block type that can't be broken but can be pushed and pulled—as a side note, you may want to consult the controls menu while you're still paused, because the default controls aren't the most intuitive (or at least they weren't to me). Every tool and core mechanic is introduced during the first couple levels, so the rest of the game's 28 total levels are spent playing with different tool combinations and slight tweaks in the map design that change how you have to approach navigation. Maybe you'll get a level that's all about verticality and strategically breaking blocks to create your own makeshift staircases, or maybe everything is localized in one giant grid where you have to find the exact right path of blocks to break to reach everything without trapping yourself. This adds some much-needed variety, but doesn't radically change the core gameplay—with just a few exceptions, what you get in the early game is very similar to what you'll be getting in the late game, albeit with larger levels and an increased difficulty curve. Definitely take advantage of the free demo to see how much you vibe with this gameplay loop first, because that'll determine if you'll vibe with the rest of the game; and it's what I ended up doing before buying the full game myself. I will say that playing it wasn't always the smoothest experience, my main complaint being how slow-paced the game could feel at times. This is partly due to a slow swing animation and every block taking 3-8 hits to break—though I assume that this is so you can't rush things and softlock yourself as easily, which is a fair trade-off if that was the intent—but often this pacing issue was more due to the map design. Many levels have large, maze-like layouts that are almost too large for their own good. The placement of the other tools makes it so that you'll need to do a lot of backtracking that only increases as the maps get bigger, and it resulted in levels taking me at least twice as long as I feel like they should have not because the puzzles inside were inherently more difficult to solve, but because it became harder to keep track of where everything was and more time-consuming to travel between points of interest on the map. The smaller, more condensed levels, like those "one giant grid" ones I mentioned earlier, are the ones I found the most fun to play because I could focus solely on the block-breaking puzzles instead of spending half my time retreading the same corridors over and over again every time I picked up a new tool and needed to sort out where I was supposed to use it first. Even though it could feel very rough around the edges at times, I still had my fair share of fun with [i]Miner Open Chests[/i]. It has a decent gameplay loop, a difficulty level suited for a solid all-ages experience, and a pretty good amount of content for its price. Again, try the demo first if you're unsure, but do pick up the full game if that demo ends up clicking for you. [quote]For more game reviews, check out my [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/42524563/]Curator page[/url]![/quote]